Tom Stafford is J.E. Barnes Professor of Computer Information Systems. He has earned doctorates in Marketing (University of Georgia) and Management Information Systems (University of Texas -Arlington). Stafford has edited 13 special issues of notable journals including Communications of the ACM, IEEE Transactions and MIS Quarterly. He has served as Editor-in-Chief of the journal Decision Sciences and is presently Editor-in-Chief of The DATA BASE for Advances in Information Systems. Stafford co-chaired the 2018 Americas Conference for Information Systems and will chair the IFIP 8.11/11.13 Information Security Workshop in 2019.